-2012-2013+1st+North+GA+RESA+Media+Consortium+Meeting

=First North Georgia RESA Media Consortium Meeting=

Sequoyah High School
4485 Hickory Road Canton, GA 30115 Phone: 770.345.1474

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**Featuring**
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 * Susan Jacobs, Georgia Department of Education (CCGPS Workshop)
 * Elease Franchini and Jan Reed, Sequoyah HIgh School (2011-2012 Exemplary Media Program)
 * Renee Reed (Building an Android App for Your School)
 * Mary Perdue (Georgia Library Media Association Update)
 * Collaboration Corner

**CCGPS Resources from the Georgia Department of Education**

 * Follow the GaDOE ELA Department on Twitter!** @gadoeela ([])
 * Subscribe to the GaDOE ELA ListServ!** Send an email to the level that you need:
 * Join-ela-k-2@list.doe.k12.ga.us
 * Join-ela-3-5@list.doe.k12.ga.us
 * Join-ela-6-8@list.doe.k12.ga.us
 * Join-ela-9-12@list.doe.k12.ga.us
 * Join-ela-admin@list.doe.k12.ga.us
 * View and Share Editable ELA Units with Dropbox!** Send an email to sjacobs@doe.k12.ga.us and request a Dropbox invitation.


 * Have your say!** Ms. Jacobs wants articles from media specialists for the monthly ELA Reporter Newsletter. Email your articles to sjacobs@doe.k12.ga.us.

[|CCGPS Webinars]Access CCGPS webinars from the GaDOE. [|Additional Webinars] (Including GALILEO/Encyclopedia Britannica webinar) [|Text Complexity Rubrics] and Sample Guides for Specific Books [|Common Core Appendix A] (Measuring text complexity) [|Common Core Appendix B] (Sample texts and performance tasks for grades K-12 in ELA and Literacy for History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects)

Grades K-5 Grades 6-8 Grades 9-12
 * CCGPS ELA Wikispaces Resources by Grade Level**


 * Download Ms. Jacob's PowerPoint from our meeting.**


 * Download Ms. Jacob's Resources PowerPoint with included activities for use in training teachers at your school**

**Sequoyah High School Exemplary Media Program**
[|Sequoyah High School Homepage] [|Sequoyah High School Media Center]

Creating an App

 * iBuildApp Development Tool** ([])
 * Apple Developer Site** ([])
 * Google Play Android Developer Site** ([])
 * Windows 8 Apps Developer Site** ([])
 * Renee Reed's PowerPoint**

**Georgia Library Media Association**
GLMA is our advocate in Atlanta. The Georgia Library Media Association speaks on our behalf with legislators and state leaders who make decisions that impact media programs. Join today or renew your membership to support school library media programs in the state of Georgia. Our district representative is Mary Perdue.
 * GLMA Website**. []
 * Join GLMA**. []
 * Follow the GLMA Blog**. [] The blog is a one-stop shop for all things related to Georgia school library media programs.
 * ​GLMA Summer Institute**​. []
 * Georgia COMO**. []

**Banned Books Week (September 30-October 6)**


[|ALA Banned Books Week Webpage] has tons of resources and ideas. [|Second Annual Banned Books Week Readout] is a neat way to participate by reading a banned book and posting a video of it to YouTube.

**Sites to Checkout!**

 * National Geographic Publications Index** ([])

A mash-up of GoogleMaps with historical photos makes for time travel.
 * What was There** ([])

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 * Small Demons** ([])

We Give Books is a new digital initiative that enables anyone with access to the Internet to put books in the hands of children who don't have them, simply by reading online. Read beautiful digital editions online. (Website shared by Mrs. Ziegler)
 * We Give Books** ([|www.wegivebooks.org])

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A twisted tale of how the Troy, Michigan Public Library reframed the conversation about increasing taxes to save the library.
 * Troy Library Campaign** ([|http://vimeo.com/47890552#at=0])

Visually is a site that compiles infographics. Users can now create infographics on this site, too. Infographics are visuals that mash-up multiple pieces of information to communicate. The earliest examples are the USA Today charts that are now very commonplace in media. View the Pearl Harbor infographic for an example ([]). Kathy Schrock has some ideas about using infographics as an assessment ([])
 * Visually** (http://visual.ly)


 * Bookshelf Skin for your iPhone or MacBook** ([])